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This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510–c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissy's extraordinary art had been brought before the Victorian public by Minton's highly decorated 'Palissy wares'. Henry Morley (1822–94) trained in medicine but later became an author and editor, writing for Charles Dickens among others. Here he gathers together all the material then available about Palissy, including the potter's own writings and a contemporary biography. Palissy was among the many European ceramicists who attempted to reproduce Chinese porcelain; his lack of success drove his family into poverty, but his highly ornamented wares, encrusted with sea creatures, came to the attention of Catherine de' Medici, who gave him her patronage and protection (he was a convinced Protestant). After her death he was sent to the Bastille, and died there.

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Date Published: April 2015

format: Paperback

isbn: 9781108078061

length: 334pages

dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19 mm

weight: 0.43kg

availability: Available

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Birth, parentage, and early education 2. Palissy obtains some knowledge of the world 3. More knowledge of the world 4. Palissy studies the philosophers 5. Commotions in the church 6. The French reformer 7. Palissy married and settled 8. Pottery three centuries ago 9. Palissy resolves to conquer for himself new ground 10. A truce 11. Second Palissian war for the discovery of white enamel 12. A heretic is burnt at Saintes 13. Palissy becomes a potter 14. The reformed church at Saintes 15. Affairs of France 16. Palissy publishes a book 17. Palissy in sunshine, and France under a cloud 18. The outbreak of the storm.

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